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Conscientious Autonomy: Displacing Decisions in Health Care
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 35, Number 2, March-April 2005
- pp. 34-44
- 10.1353/hcr.2005.0025
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
The standard bioethics account is that respecting patient autonomy means ensuring patients make their own decisions. In fact, respecting patient autonomy often has more to do with the overall shape and meaning of patients' health care regimes, and sometimes, at least, patients will very reasonably defer to medical authority.
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